AUTHOR: Gordon MacMaster

Of all the industries in which we work, none compare to healthcare for the complexity of data quality management. At the same time, with real people’s lives at stake, bad or incomplete data in healthcare has the potential to cause more harm than in virtually any other environment.

Population health management (PHM) empowers healthcare providers to unlock value in patient data and become more efficient and effective at delivering care and accomplishing their missions. It’s a powerful model for decreasing costs while improving outcomes that should be part of any healthcare provider’s IT strategy.

The America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP)  Expo and Conference was held in San Diego from June 20-22. I wanted to share some observations from the conference on some of the challenges and opportunities facing the health insurance industry.

I had the opportunity to attend the MegaPAW - Predictive Analytics World in Las Vegas on June 5 and 6th.  My focus was on the Healthcare sessions.  I noted the following:

Thanks to the headlines, the average person probably thinks a Chief Data Officer’s role is locking down an organization’s databases against hackers and sending out “Our privacy policy has changed” emails. But for organizations leading the way in digital transformation, the CDO is responsible not for corralling information, but for creating value. They play increasingly-critical strategic roles in[…]